Henry Purcell News
English composer (1659–1695)
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Commemorations 2025 (Death: Henry Purcell)
- pipe organ, harpsichord
- opera, hymn, ode
- Kingdom of England
- composer, organist, musicologist, music theorist, author
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New music for non-traditional inclusive ensembles: RNS Moves & National Open Youth Orchestra in dynamic new pieces
[…] RNS Moves founder Clarence Adoo and the robo-recorder, invented and played by Liza Bec. Werner worked closely with them to integrate the distinctive instruments into the music. Werner's new piece is inspired by city life, evoking the sensation of strolling through a bustling landscape and being drawn to buskers using a mixture of field recordings and solo parts played live by the players. The concert will include more of Werner's pieces, plus Liza Bec’s Space Dinosaur Music and music from Purcell and Barbara Strozzi to Stockhausen and Nina Simone. Full details from The Glasshouse website.Members of the National Open Youth OrchestraThe National Open Youth Orchestra, world’s first disabled-led national youth ensemble, is returning to the Barbican's Milton Court Concert Hall on 21 April 2024 for Feel the Music, a relaxed performance welcoming a diverse audience inclusive of disabled and neuro-divergent concert goers and families to a joyous afternoon of music. Twenty-four of the orchestra's young disabled and non-disabled […]
2024-02-21 08:00:00
Revealing a remarkable talent: Solomon's Knot explore the Sacred Songs and Anthems of 17th century composer George Jeffreys
[…] Kirby Hall, where he remained during the Civil War with Lady Hatton whilst Lord Hatton fled to France. Despite the fact that Jeffreys was employed by Christopher Hatton primarily as a secretary/steward and not as a musician, he maintained a passionate interest in music throughout his life and music manuscripts in his hand survive from the 1630s through to the 1680s. What is perhaps most significant is that Jeffreys, who was born around 50 years before Purcell, was one of the few English composers of the period to be influenced by contemporary Italian styles and to write in a forward-looking style.One of the Hattons (Sir Christopher Hatton III) had been an avid collection of Italian music, the stile nuovo was highly popular in Court circles even if Anglican church music remained somewhat old-fashioned. London bookseller Robert Martin thought it worthwhile to publish five catalogues of Venetian music between 1633 and 1650,and Sir […]
2024-02-20 08:43:00
Knowing no boundaries: on Circus Dinograd contemporary & period performers move between styles & genres without embarrassment
Circus Dinograd; traditional, Jean-Luc Ponty, Purcell, Ravel, Jarmo Ramponen, David Faber, Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Marie-Louise de Jong, Marleen Wester, Judith van Driel, Byrd, John Dowland; Hilary Summers, Maarten Ornstein, Mike Fentross, Dudok Quartet Amsterdam; Zefir RecordsReviewed 14 February 2024Sui generis, a disc that moves between genre and style without embarrassment as the ensemble of contemporary and period performers cross from the historical to the contemporary to the improvisedCircus Dinograd on Zefir Records is an intriguing new cross-genre collaboration between contralto Hilary Summers, the bass clarinet and theorbo/vihuela duet of Maarten Ornstein and Mike Fentross, and the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam (Judith van Driel, Marleen Wester, Marie-Louise de Jong, David Faber). The idea behind the disc seems to be that there are no boundaries, so we have reimaginations of Byrd, Purcell, and Dowland alongside folksong, Ravel and pieces by the different members of the ensemble, notably a set of Seven Deadly […]
2024-02-14 01:00:00
First part of 4 part series written and presented by Charles Hazlewood From BBC website The Birth of
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